Planning

To be effective, the teaching of speaking and listening needs to be planned. Whilst speaking and listening is a crucial part of the teaching of reading and writing pupils benefit greatly from teachers' explicit and detailed planning, including speaking and listening learning objectives, activities, assessment opportunities and outcomes. In your department's planning documents, how effectively are you and members of the department encouraged and directed to address speaking and listening?

Click on the following to gauge the strength and scope of your long- and medium-term plans and to help you consider what developments might be necessary to strengthen planning.

Activity:

Reviewing long- and medium-term plans (22 KB)
Look back over your responses and make a note on the Speaking and listening review sheet of any elements that you think need developing or improving.

Speaking and listening review sheet (22 KB)
Now to consider short-term lesson planning. Click on the following to guide your review.

Activity:

Reviewing short-term lesson plans (21 KB)
Look back over your responses and make a note on the Speaking and listening review sheet of any elements that you think need developing or improving.